Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-16

Z ! @@-eA@AN 80 NIZUAEX NX|.M ABE
water 0onpany had th1ir iampa IN
readiness 70 IfRff TIE eifg. a. vel' rave
ehsn he moon Shines. fhe cItv Is Il
aaxkDssa Thereby hangs . mere o.
leM interesting tails. Tee City Counsfl
% Eaoona = probably TIE sio9sst body
81 men thai God IN ne infinits uisdom
naa eEeaied- he narrative HINGES On
fnaa faof. I've trn1ohiseE Bare granted
90 TIE lsehftnn % TIE city pHssi0us %
The aate nentfonea-one % the Nar-
obanls' EiectIie Light Co, the ether e
TIE Tassma LiRht and Wsisr O.. TIE
lasseE y Al Old oouosrn, having wafex
and ess works long established here.
tie MeKch8ns is . comparative M
starr that promised good IiQht as Iow
rates AUG barred shs old company 20
renfR on Raa and Enppiy electricily. Ths
Mrrcn snis Company wa9 represented
~ man bearing the hyphenafsd name
OF Pope-Cox and wearing pantaloens
vita . fringe around - snoeS. 80 vho.
% tns whole, is ruatIaE. Nov, Mr.. G.
b Wright Of Philadsiphia, Who Il an.
other patron saint Of Taoona, L 8
prominent s1ookholder Of TIE Tacoma
LsRhs and Water Company. and when
ne beard thsf Pope-Csx With the fringe |
DAE0ExEs YnoM HB aFknzz.S
Hsd secured . franchise Ter she Mer-
Chants Company, be Jumped up and |
down u BIS cfiise 81 Philadelphia, BE- !
InR wrought up With Indignation. Bat |
tee hypbenaeed and ffinRed Pspe- Cox /
did nos know or did not care for thiA. |
and went steadily 70 work 70 pot 40 |
poles and otherwise prepare ~ give TIE |
oily more light. Bat. aIasl like che late |
krenfng Telegraph Of this city. il vas . |
good thing but vas lacking when the /
resonant jingle Of tire coin Of the realm |
was demanded. There the Tacoma
Light and Wster Company vas strong. /
The hyphenated company had arranged /
With the An erican Electrical Company
Of New York for Q powerful dynamo Il
capable OF electfifyine an infinite NAM
Der Of large are lights. The arrange
ment vas that the company would pay
part eash and q large part stock. A
Fumor, possibly Of such trifinR nature
as % indicate the leoRth Of the fringe
~ Mr.. Pope-Cox's trousers. seems 10
have taken the Eastern blizzard and
reached the ears Of the electrical CON-
pany In New York. At any rate. the
Merchants dynamo was not sent a.
promptly as was exPs0ted, and while
Mr.. Fepe Oox was supeFintending che
erection Of poles hsre, Mr.. HosmeF
A h10AI HAND MAN
or Mr.. Wright, of Philadelphia. step-
ped over 70 New York and stated that
be had money for the purchase Of that
same dynamo. Ills nov en- route 10 Te-
coma. billed 10 the Tacoma Light and
Water Company. 10 the meantime Mr..
Pope Coz hurried East nearly month
ago 10 purchase another dynamo. He
vas 70 be here in twenty days from the
time Of his departure. For twenty days
he wa not heard Of a. ell. Yesterday ,
q telegram reached Z N. O1imetls,
President Of the Merchants Company, ,
coming from Montreal. saying thas be / !
Pope Cox) had been srowed in on the | /
Canadian Pacific during the interim 1
and that be would be as swift as poe
sible Ia the business 10 hand That is !
the situation between the two CON- I
panies. Nov ~ to the City OoanciI. | !
The Tacoma Light and Water Company !
have been prepared 20 light large part !
Of the city for some tine and yet men i
and women continue TO fall Of the up- !
lifted sidewalks and into innumeFakle | I
bitches with their accustomed regularity | !
because Of the darkness. The Council !
passed an ordinance providing for lc0
incandescent lights from the Tecoma
Light and Water Company, and q CON- a
mistee was appointed 10 locate them. !
Two weeks passed and when the Ooun-
oil met again the committee vas not I
ready 70 report. b
"wHAr!'
Must this city 90 two weeks more In .
darkness because the committee has mos il
attended 10 its business1s enqnired Mr..
Lillis, one Of the Council. az the last
meeting; and an arrangement was made o
for the temporary lighting Of the city, I
b.ding the report Of this committee.
THIS was referred on the 9Th of this I
month 10 the Joint Committees on Fire O
and Water and Streets and Public d
Property. Mr.. Hanna is chairman of q
the Joint oofamittee. The streets are
unliRhtsd still. The newspapers have y
been crying for light, and the Ledger 9
has been reliRiously ignoring Mr.. Hanna
recently and he Is mad. When asked
today Why the streets we're unlighted, q
be replied, Damn the newspapers
When We are ready TO light the entire b
city We will report. and not till them r
Now there are q whole lot OF little Y
things that might be joined together
into q pretty chain of cfrcumstautial Y
evidence II this case we're In court. In d
the frat place, the ordinance providing .
for the hundred lights first stipulated y
that they shOald be "arc" lights. That i
word was stricken out and incandes- q
cent" inserted. The Tacoma Light and
Water Company since the recent pur-
chase Of the Merchants dynamo, can
supply both. The Mefch lnts' contains
plates furnishing only the larger. THIS, .
together With the persistent delay, looks =
- though somebody was waiting on the
Merchants Company to get ous Of the
snovdrifs. Don't H.
10 DEMoLIsa AN ADDITION.
A long time ago, when what 10 nov
Old Town. OF the First Ward Of Taco
ma. vas tho principal settlement here,
another little settlement was plated,
ous southvard Of the neW town, near
the prairie, which IL now in the market
undeg the name Of Byrd's addition. It
seems that the streets Of this addition
all run conlraFiwise 10 those Of Taco
ma, which have reaohed cut 10 Il. IL
now proposed 10 extend O and stheF
parallel streets through this addition.
II tt Is done the streets OF Byrd's add
tion will be chiefly In the middle Of the
blocks, and the lots and blocks uill be
in the middle Of the streets. Il 10 n
deemed advisable, however, 20 preserve
tue lines Of the streets Of Tacoma, even
70 the utter demolition Of Byrd's adj
tion &c originally laid out. The pros {
pect Is creating great uneasinsss soath =
Of tsvn.
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